Sean Latham

The Art of Scandal

Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman a Clef

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Produktbeschreibung

The Art of Scandal advances a relatively simple claim with far-reaching consequences for modernist studies: writers and readers throughout the early twentieth century revived the long-despised codes and habits of the roman ¿lef as a key part of that larger assault on Victorian realism we now call modernism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780199922932
• ISBN-10: 0199922934
• Artikelnr.: 35275191

Autorenporträt

Sean Latham is Professor of English at the University of Tulsa. He is the Director of the Modernist Journals Project and the author of Am I a Snob? Modernism and the Novel and Joyce's Modernism.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contents
* Foreword vii
* 1. Introduction: Fact, Fiction, and Pleasure 3
* 2. True Fictions and False Histories: The Secret Rise of the Roman à
Clef 21
* 3. Open Secrets and Hidden Truths: Wilde and Freud 43
* 4. Libel: Policing the Laws of Fiction 69
* 5. The Novel at the Bar: Joyce, Lewis, and Libel 89
* 6. The Coterie as Commondity: Huxley, Lawrence, Rhys, and the
Business of Revenge 124
* Notes 167
* Select Bibliography of Modernist Romans à Clef 193
* Index 197